There have been make jokes about drummers. A popular riddle is:
 
Q: How is a drum solo like a sneeze?
A: You can tell it’s coming, but you can’t do anything about it.
 
The joke has been cited in print since at least 1994.
 
   
Google Groups: rec.music.bluenote
Jazz Jokes
Dodger Posey
7/12/94
How is a drum solo like a sneeze?
You can tell it’s coming, but can’t do anything about it.
 
Google Groups: rec.music.christian
Drums and the Church (was Apology To This Newsgroup)
(insert lame joke here)
2/7/96
(...)
Q:      How is a drum solo like a sneeze?
A:      You can tell it’s coming, but you can’t do anything about it.
     
Google Groups: alt.music.rush
Drummer joke
The Pied Piper
6/24/97
(...)
Q: How is a drum solo like a sneeze?
A: You can tell it’s coming, but you can’t do anything about it.
 
Google Groups: alt.strange.days
Drummer Jokes
a101deadcats
4/30/02
(...)
Q.  How is a Drum Solo like a Sneeze??
A.  You can tell it’s coming, but you can’t do a damn thing about it.
 
Twitter
Mick_Shrimpton
‏@Mick_Shrimpton
Joke O’ The Day: How is a drum solo like a sneeze?
...You can tell it’s coming, but you can’t do anything about it…!
8:14 PM - 24 Nov 2008
 
Google Books
Man Walks into a Bar:
Over 6,000 of the Most Hilarious Jokes, Funniest Insults and Gut-Busting One-Liners
By Stephen Arnott and Mike Haskins
Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press
2007
Pg. 317:
How is a drum solo like a sneeze? You can tell it’s coming, but you can’t do anything about it.
 
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of One-Liners
By Geoff Tibballs
London: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
How is a drum solo like a sneeze?
You can tell it’s coming, but you can’t do a thing about it.
   
CMU (Complete Music Update)
Approved: Adam Betts
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 16 August 2016
Adam Betts
How is a drum solo like a sneeze? You can tell it’s coming and there’s nothing you can do about it. So goes the old joke.